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has caused the Debian Bug report #387153,
regarding invoke-rc.d: initscript rng-tools, action "start" failed.
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Package: rng-tools
Version: 2-unofficial-mt.10-2
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
Trying to install rng-tools when you don't have a /dev/hwrandom leads
to:
Setting up rng-tools (2-unofficial-mt.10-2) ...
Trying to create /dev/hwrng device inode...
udev active, devices will be created in /dev/.static/dev/
Starting Hardware RNG entropy gatherer daemon: (Hardware RNG device
inode not found)
/etc/init.d/rng-tools: Cannot find a hardware RNG device to use.
invoke-rc.d: initscript rng-tools, action "start" failed.
As described here:
Bug#239810: rng-tools: Fails to start/install when no hardware RNG is
present
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239810
This should have been fixed, right ?
Thanks
Mathieu
Ref:
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/msg/2644cd4b1bce0594
That's why the package complained. Add a static link from /dev/null to
/dev/hwrandom, and the package will install (and promptly chug a lot of
CPU
trying to get useful data out of /dev/null, I suppose). Stop the daemon,
remove the symlinks that activate it, and you will have it installed
even if
that won't be useful to you right now.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (989, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages rng-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii makedev 2.3.1-82 creates device files in /dev
rng-tools recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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The package already ignores failures to start in its postinst scripts, so it
will install just fine. Of course, it will COMPLAIN that there is no hwrng
device, but that's it. #239810 complained that it would abort the dpkg run,
it doesn't do it anymore.
I am closing this bug. If it is *stopping* a dpkg run due to the failure,
please reopen #239810. If it is just complaining, that's not a bug, it is
doing exactly what I want it to :-)
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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